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Electronic versus paper diaries: a pilot study of concordance and adherence in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy

BACKGROUND: Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRS) and other electronic data collection methods have begun to replace conventional paper diaries as a way to capture daily patient reports. However, these methods have not been compared in head and neck (H&N) cancer patients receiving radiation...

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Autores principales: Blondin, Joseph M, Abu-Hasaballah, Khamis S, Tennen, Howard, Lalla, Rajesh V
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972290/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20955592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-3284-2-29
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author Blondin, Joseph M
Abu-Hasaballah, Khamis S
Tennen, Howard
Lalla, Rajesh V
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description BACKGROUND: Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRS) and other electronic data collection methods have begun to replace conventional paper diaries as a way to capture daily patient reports. However, these methods have not been compared in head and neck (H&N) cancer patients receiving radiation therapy. METHODS: 15 subjects with H&N cancer were asked to complete daily IVRS calls and daily paper diaries during radiation therapy. We compared response consistency and comparative adherence across the two methods. RESULTS: 86.1% (1920/2231) of participants' responses were consistent between IVRS and paper diaries. 79.5% of the expected number of paper diaries were completed, compared to 66.2% of IVRS phone calls. CONCLUSIONS: In this pilot study of H&N cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy, concordance was high between responses recorded by paper diaries and IVRS. Although adherence appeared to be higher for the paper diaries, it is possible that they may not have been completed at the proper time.
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spelling pubmed-29722902010-11-04 Electronic versus paper diaries: a pilot study of concordance and adherence in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy Blondin, Joseph M Abu-Hasaballah, Khamis S Tennen, Howard Lalla, Rajesh V Head Neck Oncol Research BACKGROUND: Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRS) and other electronic data collection methods have begun to replace conventional paper diaries as a way to capture daily patient reports. However, these methods have not been compared in head and neck (H&N) cancer patients receiving radiation therapy. METHODS: 15 subjects with H&N cancer were asked to complete daily IVRS calls and daily paper diaries during radiation therapy. We compared response consistency and comparative adherence across the two methods. RESULTS: 86.1% (1920/2231) of participants' responses were consistent between IVRS and paper diaries. 79.5% of the expected number of paper diaries were completed, compared to 66.2% of IVRS phone calls. CONCLUSIONS: In this pilot study of H&N cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy, concordance was high between responses recorded by paper diaries and IVRS. Although adherence appeared to be higher for the paper diaries, it is possible that they may not have been completed at the proper time. BioMed Central 2010-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2972290/ /pubmed/20955592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-3284-2-29 Text en Copyright ©2010 Blondin et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Electronic versus paper diaries: a pilot study of concordance and adherence in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy
title Electronic versus paper diaries: a pilot study of concordance and adherence in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy
title_full Electronic versus paper diaries: a pilot study of concordance and adherence in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy
title_fullStr Electronic versus paper diaries: a pilot study of concordance and adherence in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy
title_full_unstemmed Electronic versus paper diaries: a pilot study of concordance and adherence in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy
title_short Electronic versus paper diaries: a pilot study of concordance and adherence in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy
title_sort electronic versus paper diaries: a pilot study of concordance and adherence in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972290/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20955592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-3284-2-29
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